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    <title>nori : God bless Japan!!!!! (2)</title>
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I pray for you Japan!!!!<br />I'm very worried...<br />How are my japanese friends?? <br />I really hope you're alright! let me know please!!<br />
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    <title>nori : Trekking: as healthy as dangerous (0)</title>
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Hi!!<br />Once again, I had to write an article for my English class. It was about “How to be safe if you go walking in the country or the mountains”. I’m posting it here hoping that you could correct my mistakes. Thanks for everything!!<br /><br />  --  Trekking: as healthy as dangerous --<br /><br />Ups, I didn’t know that… <br />How to prevent and face some of the common risks of doing trekking<br /><br />If you love being outdoors, or going for a walk through forests or in the mountains, or just walking for a long time, then trekking is ideal for you. <br />This is good for health because it involves both physical and mental work.<br />Trekking isn’t a relaxing activity; it has his risks. If you’re thinking of doing it, you must take care of several things… for example; do you know what to do if a bad-tempered dog appears in front of you? Or if a storm starts? Or if you get injured? <br />Obviously you can’t always prevent these incidents, but at least you can learn how to survive to them. So, here you have some advices and tips that may be useful for you:<br /><br />[A bad-tempered dog]<br />If a dog comes to you barking and grunting, don't run away: the animal may run after you. Don’t use your arms to defend yourself; the dog could see it as an aggression. Just try to move away slowly, to avoid a possible attack. <br />Anyway, if the animal attacks you, just try to give him something to bite, like a branch, a hat or a bottle of water; anything unless your body. <br /><br />[Blisters]<br />I you get a blister on your foot, stop walking and find the reason of the irritation. If it’s caused for some fold of the sock or loose shoe, try to correct it. If the slight pain continues, take off the other sock or use a handkerchief as an additional protection. This way, you’ll be able to go on. But when you have finished the exercise, clean the affected area and put some cream and bandage on it. <br />It is very important to use some good footwear to avoid this problem. <br /><br />[An electric storm]<br />If you get stuck in a storm, the best you can do is to look for an open space and to bend down nearest to the ground as it’s possible. Stay away from trees and metal materials which conduct electricity. <br />If suddenly your hair stand on end and you taste like copper, it means a ray is going to strike nearly. In that case, you should put your feet and legs together and cover your ears with your hands. Try to stay down, squatting on your toetip. You must never lie down on the floor, because you might get an electric shock if a ray hits around. <br /><br />[A stab of pain on the abdomen]<br />If this happens to you, slow down the walking or stop it completely and put your arm up. With your arm extended, stretch your body to the opposite side of the pain. <br />To prevent this pain, you should keep a diet based on easily digestible foods like bread or bananas, and sport drinks, especially before the walking. And it’s essential to keep hydrated during the whole exercise. <br /><br />[Sunburn]<br />Spending much time under the sun could be health hazard for you if you don’t take the necessary cares. One of the measures to be taken is to wear a hat to reduce the risk of getting sunburned or heat exhaustion. You should also put some sun block cream on your face and every part of your body exposed to the sunlight. <br /><br />[A twisted ankle]<br />Try to walk slowly and then increase the speed of the walking to check the importance of the lesion. If you can walk quickly without feeling any pain, just come back your home. If your ankle is swollen, take your sock down to check if there are bones out of place. However keep your sock and shoe put, because the compression helps to avoid the swelling. <br />Once you arrived home, put some ice on your ankle and keep it raised. If the pain continues, call a doctor. <br /><br /><br />Making a list of the things to carry on with you could save you of being in troubles. <br />Insect repellent, a first-aid box, a map, a compass, a knife, a flashlight, some food rich in carbohydrates, water, an extra pair of sock, a raincoat or windbreaker, a hat and gloves are some of the items you must take note.  And always remember to try to leave some mark on those places where you could possibly get lost. <br />Finally, after taking all these things in consideration, it only rests you to spend an entertaining experience, breathing fresh air and enjoying the beauties of our mother nature.<br />
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    <title>nori : translating a song (6)</title>
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Hey! hello!! <br />This time I brought you a song that I like and I wanted to translate from Japanese. As you can see, the song has some verses in English and others in Japanese. Next time I would like to translate the complete song to Spanish, but first I wanna know if I my translations are alright.  Could you correct me please? Thanks a lot! ^^ I appreciate your help! <br /><br /><br />It’s Hard to say my mind<br />君の声を確かめたい (I would like to confirm your voice)<br />Can you tell me your height<br />届かずに沈むため息 (a sigh sinks without reaching)<br /><br />If you searching for the shine<br />その手を離さない (don’t let go that hand)<br />きっと巡り会う (meeting by chance)<br />dreaming of you <br />遥かな旅へ (travelling to far)<br /><br />あの日の約束は (the promise of that day)<br />永遠の道しるべ (the eternal guide)<br />彷徨う時間いつかきっと会える (since when you surely loitered)<br /><br />その日 が来るまでは (until that day comes)<br />君の影で眠る (your shadow is going to sleep)<br />I don’t know<br />but I believe that coming true the day<br />we both know<br /><br />It’s Hard to say your mind<br />輝く眩しい横顔 (the dazzling profile shines)<br />I can tell you my own<br />君が許してくれるなら (if you let me) <br /><br />If you searching for the shadow<br />この手を伸ばし (extend this hand)<br />きっと巡り会う (meeting by chance)<br />dreaming of you<br />僕でいいなら (if it’s possible for me)<br /><br />I don’t wanna see you feeling blue<br />I don’t wanna see your light is gone<br />永久なる時間いつかきっと会える (it becomes eternal, when you surely --) [sorry! I didn't know what to put here :S]<br /><br />その日が来るまでは (until that day comes)<br />君を見守りたい (I will watch over you)<br />I don’t know but I believe that we can be the one<br />we both know<br /><br />その日が来るまでは 君を見守りたい (until that day comes, I will watch over you)<br />I don’t know but I believe that I’ll going you<br />For be the one<br />
<br /><br />Posted at Fri Jun 25 03:45:06 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : ...about the North Pole (1)</title>
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Hi!! Wooo two posts in the same week… seems like I’m doing my homework haha <br />This time the writing is about a traumatic expedition to the North Pole… Enjoy it! <br />[This isn’t real ok? It’s just a writing (fiction) which I did for my English class]<br /><br />"An incredible and sad story"<br /><br /><br />Hello! My name is John Steward and I’m a marine biologist. I’m also professor at the Millersville University of Pennsylvania. In spite of the benefits and satisfactions that teaching offers me, I still think that this isn’t the best job for me. <br />Years ago, I used to be an investigator, but after suffering a traumatic experience I had to resign. It happened on 1977, when I was 27 years old. At that time, I was already graduated and I was member of some investigations. Then, one rainy morning, I got a phone call. My superior and some classmates were forming a team and preparing an expedition to the North Pole; they were needing a computer genius so they had decided to invite me. I though it would be an amazing experience, so I accepted it immediately. <br />After a week, on March 5th, we began our trip. As the North Pole is an inaccessible area, it took us almost two days to arrive there. First we had to travel 3 hours by bus to the airport, and then we had to take a plane to the Borneo floating base. There we boarded a plane called Antonov 74, which is the only airfreight able to fly across places with bad conditions weather. <br />When we finally arrived, it was really cold, almost -20ºC. In spite of being day all time (it was always day because it was summer; while in winter is always night, there’s no day light), the temperature didn’t change, it was very cold and I suffered it a lot because I wasn’t used to it. <br />We spent two months there; we created good memories and we collected a lot of information for our research. But we also witnessed a sadly success… <br />It happened in the third week, when my team and I were looking fish’s species. I heard a loud crying behind us, so I turned back and I saw him: a lonely baby seal was following us. I was shocked. That was a defenceless and cute animal, just asking us for help. <br />We didn’t know what to do. Still frightened, I proposed to take him with us to some zoological garden in the city, but my classmates objected it. After some discussions, we decided to look for some seal’s herd where we could leave him. <br />Four days had passed and we hadn’t found any other seal yet. Meanwhile, the seal was staying in our shack. Day by day, we all became very fond of him; the idea of leaving him was becoming a difficult work. So, when we finally found a herd, it took us a time to say goodbye. <br />When we came back, everything was different. That baby seal had deeply touched my heart and feelings; I will never forget him. In spite of being the most shocking experience I’ve ever had, I think I couldn’t go through anything like this again. That’s why I decided to become a teacher, even if it’s hard. <br />
<br /><br />Posted at Sat May 15 04:10:22 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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Hi everybody! How are you? It’s been a long since my last publication… I’ve been really busy – I’m still busy haha – but last week I had to write a text for my English class and now I wanna show you the result, then you can correct my mistakes. (Please correct me!!! ^^) <br /><br /><br />"Hey, do you want a vacuum cleaner?"<br /><br />Being a door to door sales agent isn’t pleasant at all. I’ve been doing this for almost two months. <br />When I applied for this work, as I was new in the business, my superior hired me for a trial period, during which I had to walk around the city and get some clients. But selling vacuum cleaners is not easy, and the worst was that I had to sell at least 2000 vacuum cleaners for week. As I thought at the beginning: it was going to be really troublesome. <br />At that time my chief had to travel abroad for a business meeting, so he just gave me the catalogues and ordered me to begin with the work. I had no idea what to do, far from it how to get clients. Then I thought about who could be a client… what kind of person or company would buy vacuum cleaners? After searching some information in the web, I wrote a list of 50 places where I could go to sell the products. <br />Those vacuum cleaners were new imported products, therefore they weren’t known in the country. I wanted to benefit from that and, in view of that, I tried to explain the main characters of the products. Besides they weren’t really expensive and, depending the price or size of the products, there were some promotions that made them more advisable. <br />The first week I went to 12 important companies which sold electrical appliances. They all were located in the city centre, so I had to travel a lot by bus and subway. They were huge buildings of more than 10 floors of offices. At the entrance there were always two or three receptionists who sent me to commercial areas, where I could talk with some employees and get their contacts. I was really nervous and eager, but at the end of the month I could sell almost a hundred vacuum cleaners. I was really happy, but my superior didn’t feel the same. He reprimanded me a lot. But he gave me another chance. So, here I am, still trying to sell these horrible vacuum cleaners, which (to tell the truth) don’t even work. <br /><br /><br />(sorry for this, It isn't my best essay - I really didn't know what to write about :S)  
<br /><br />Posted at Tue May 11 23:30:00 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : "paying a debt" (7)</title>
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There’s a saying in my language: “Lo prometido es deuda” which translation means (literally) “Every promise is a debt”. In other words, you must fulfill every promise that you make. So, here I am, paying my debt and sharing some pics of my vacations with you!<br /><br />Someone asked me sometime if there were surfers in my country (I mean, if there were people who practice surf). At that time, I couldn’t answer him sincerely, but now I have news: when I was on vacation, there was a day when the sea has risen, and the beach has totally disappeared. It was an incredible spectacle! My friend and I walked around the footbridge over the beach, and took some photos. And then, we saw it: there, in the middle of the sea, so faraway, there were two surfers!!! <br />We stood watching it and we noticed there weren’t two, but three, four, five, almost six surfers!!!!! <br />If you look the first photo, you’ll be able to see two of them (the first two that we saw). Sorry for the quality and size, it was the closest we could stand. <br />The second one is a common day at beach, and the third when the sea was rise (this is for you understand and see the difference between a sea in normal state and when it’s rise). <br /><br />[As you can see, my friend finally gave me the photos, but then I noticed that they weren’t so much as I’ve imagined… so I’m a little disappoint right now. Anyway, I think I can write about others things, and post others pics that I like. Hope you'll like it!!] 
<br /><br />Posted at Thu Mar 18 03:51:42 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : I'm back!! (3)</title>
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Yeah!! I'm finally back from my vacations! :)<br />I missed you so so much!!!!!!!! <br />I promise to tell you how were these last 10 days at beach!! ;) and share you some pics I took. <br />For now, I'm just saying hello!!
<br /><br />Posted at Thu Mar 04 03:36:29 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : vacations come!!!!!!!!!!! (2)</title>
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I'm going out for holidays. I will spend ten “wonderful” days at the beach haha  Hope you miss me! <br />See you at my back!!! <br /><br />
<br /><br />Posted at Sat Feb 20 00:02:04 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : A good friendship (4)</title>
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Yesterday I met with my best friend, who cameback from beach.<br />I went to her home and spent all afternoon together, talking like women used to do haha<br />Time passed really quickly, and soon it was 9 pm. So we wanted to go out, but it was raining a lot. It was raining all day long. Personally I thought it would stop at night, but wasn’t that the case :S A big storm started at night and we couldn’t go out, our plans were destroyed by the weather… <br />In general I like storms and rain, but yesterday, just for a moment, I really hated it. But well, it happens sometimes, we can’t do anything to change it. <br />So, instead going out, I had dinner at her house, with her family. <br />We both know since we were 9 years old, so they’re like my second family: to her mother I’m like a third daughter, even her brother call me sister. I don’t have any sister or brother, so I love being part of that family. I really love them. I used to call them “my heart family” coz we don’t have “blood connexion”, just sentimental. <br />A lot of times we talked about our friendship, wishing it never breaks! Last years, our lifes changed a lot, each one begin her personally studies and jobs, so we drift apart. Then I thought our relation would be in risk, we both had afraid to lose totally contact, but in the end, we resolved it. I must say the new communications media (internet, cellphone) help us a lot! But to meet us face to face is just invaluable, none media can produce that effect. <br />Now, we both are planning to begin a Japanese course. She loves Japanese as much as I love it, and we wish to visit Japan someday… <br />
<br /><br />Posted at Thu Feb 04 19:11:45 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : Hi Hi!!! (3)</title>
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Hello again!<br />Last time I said I would like to make more publications in lang, but in the end I was so busy that I couldn’t do it :S<br />I’m searching some texts to translate them and publish here. I can’t find an easy one, all the texts are really complicated to translate because have very common Spanish expressions and I don’t know their equivalent in English. <br />Changing the topic, it’s been really hot in my country these last days, I can take it anymore… I hate hot!!!!! I wish winter comes soon!!! <br />I’d like to go to sea and spend some days there. Ahh the sea is so refreshing!! I miss it!! Besides my best friend isn’t here, she’s on vavations (at the beach yeah! I envy her jaja) so I’m getting boring of the city.<br />I’ll try to publish more often.<br />See you!!!! <br /><br /><br />Pd: did anyone notice my last publication? It hasn’t corrections… Was it good? Or just nobody correct it? I’m a little worried about that, if you can, please take it a look and tell if it’s fine or not. <br />
<br /><br />Posted at Tue Jan 26 16:43:15 UTC 2010<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : Happy New Year!!! (2)</title>
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Hello!<br />I’ve been missing you!!!<br />Finally I got my pc back. I had a lot of problems with it, so I took it to the technical, but even he got crazy. The system had serious fails and he couldn’t discover the reasons. After that, we didn’t contact for more than a week. Obviously I begun to get worried, I thought to call him but I didn’t want to disturb… then, one day, he called to tell me the progress: he had changed the disk and other part (a platelet I think, I don’t know hoy to say it in English, it’s something connected with internet configuration). Even so, the computer had failed and he was still searching the problem. <br />Yesterday, 10 days later, he FINALLY brought it back!!! Now he changed the mother disk… I just hope it works this time!<br />Thinking about what I said in last publication, I really couldn’t connected almost till New Year, seems like I have a great sense of time! Haha To tell the truth, at that time I thought the pc problem would be repair in just a few days, that changing the disk would be enough. I didn’t imagine it would be that hard and take so many time. <br />Therefore, when I said “I probably won’t see the corrections until New Year” I was joking, talking for the sake of talking, never thought it could become real. <br />And here I am, with a repaired pc and a lot of wishes for you!<br /><br /><br />Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!<br />
<br /><br />Posted at Thu Dec 31 18:49:21 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : I'm back... just for a while (3)</title>
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It has been a long time since my last post. I’ve been very busy last months, basically with studies. University is so different from school! There’s so much to read that sometimes I didn’t even go out home for more than a week. Being seven days indoors is exhausting and depressing. <br />I love my career, but some subjects displease me… even so, I must approve them and that’s my problem: it’s really bothersome to study and learn something you don’t like, don’t you think so? At least for me is terrible!<br />But well, finally holidays come! I approved three subjects: Communication I, Expression and Anthropology. They didn’t give me my grade at Economics yet; last Friday I took the final exam, so tomorrow I will receive the result. I’m a little worry; however I supposed I did it well… I hope so!!!! I really don’t want to take an Economics exam never again!<br /><br />Now that I’m free, I wanna do more posts here. I’m thinking to write or translate stories. Last time I translated a text which I love and it wasn’t difficult. Then I tried the same with a story I wrote by myself, and it wasn’t the same… it turned very complicated to convert some Spanish expressions to English, to found the words in a different language. Maybe it’s because I still don’t know the common English expressions… for example, I could understand the meaning of “feeling blue” just days ago, until then I was wondering what was that, cause taking it literally was really strange. <br />On the other side, Lang8 is helping me a lot, I mean people here are helping me to improve my English, and I’m grateful to them… to you!!!!<br /><br />Unfortunately I’m having serious problems with my PC, I’m getting tired of this… I’m thinking of buy one new and throw it away!! Far away!! Yeah! It’s making me furious!!! I can’t connect to internet, neither listen music…just write, well at least write! haha then it’s probably I won’t see the corrections until New Year.  So, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! :D<br /><br /><br />
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    <title>nori : Today (3)</title>
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Hi everybody!<br />This time I tried to translate a text that I like so much, which I read when I was child. <br />This is the result, I hope you like it<br /><br />"Doesn’t exist a day more beautiful than today"<br /><br />The plus of a lot of yesterdays represent my past. <br />My past is full of happy and sad memories…<br />Some of them are photographed and now they’re just papers where I see me so little, where my parents are still just married, where my city doesn’t seem the same. <br /><br />Yesterday could be a beautiful day…<br />But I can’t go on constantly looking back. <br />I run the risk of not see the faces of the ones besides me. <br /><br />Maybe tomorrow will dawn even more beautiful…<br />But I can’t go on looking only the horizon.<br />I run the risk of not see the scenery around me.  <br /><br />That’s why I prefer today. I like to step it strongly, enjoy his sun or tremble with his cold, feel like each moment says me: present!<br />I know it’s very brief, that it will pass soon, and that I won’t be able to change it or make a fair copy of it. <br />I can either plan tomorrow so much: it’s a place that doesn’t exist yet.<br /> <br />Yesterday, I was. Tomorrow, I will be. Today, I am. <br />That’s why today I tell you that I love you… today I hear you… today I’m sorry about my mistakes… today I help you… today I share with you all I have… today I move away from you without keeping any word for tomorrow…<br />Because today I breathe, transpire, see, think, hear, suffer, smell, cry, work, touch, laugh, love…<br />Today.<br />Today I’m alive.<br />As you. <br /><br />--------------------------------<br />And this is the original: <br /><br />"No existe un día más hermoso que el día de hoy"<br /><br />La suma de muchísimos ayeres forma mi pasado. <br />Mi pasado se compone de recuerdos alegres… tristes…<br />Algunos están fotografiados y ahora son cartulinas donde me veo pequeño, donde mis padres siguen siendo recién casados, donde mi ciudad parece otra.<br /><br />El día de ayer pudo haber sido un hermoso día…<br />Pero no puedo avanzar mirando constantemente hacia atrás. <br />Corro el riesgo de no ver los rostros de los que marchan a mi lado. <br /><br />Acaso el día de mañana amanezca aún más hermoso…<br />Pero no puedo avanzar mirando sólo el horizonte.<br />Corro el riesgo de no ver el paisaje que se abre a mi alrededor. <br /><br />Por eso, prefiero el día de hoy. Me gusta pisarlo con fuerza, gozar su sol o estremecerme con su frío, sentir cómo cada instante me dice: ¡Presente!<br />Sé que es muy breve, que pronto pasará, que no voy a poder modificarlo luego ni pasarlo en limpio… <br />Como tampoco puedo planificar demasiado el día de mañana: es un lugar que todavía no existe. <br /><br />Ayer, fui. Mañana, seré. Hoy, soy.<br />Por eso, hoy te digo que te quiero… hoy te escucho… hoy te pido disculpas por mis errores…hoy te ayudo… hoy comparto lo que tengo… hoy me separo de ti sin guardarme ninguna palabra para mañana…<br />Porque hoy respiro, transpiro, veo, pienso, oigo, sufro, huelo, lloro, trabajo, toco, río, amo…<br />Hoy.<br />Hoy estoy vivo.<br />Como tú. <br />
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    <title>nori : Good news!!!!! (1)</title>
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Like I said in the last publication, last Friday I had an english test.<br />As my professor hadn't sent me any notice, yesterday I sent her an e-mail asking about the exam's results. <br />A few minutes ago, I checked my mails, and when I saw her name I got nervous again. I made click in the link and read the answer: "You did it very well!!!!! You had 8.50 in the written and 9 in the oral!!!!!!" <br />At first, I couldn't believe this, but now that I realize, I'm veeeeery happy!!!!!!!!! So, after thank her, I hurried up to write this and telling you the good news. <br /><br />
<br /><br />Posted at Fri Aug 21 17:40:58 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : So nervous!!! (0)</title>
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Last Friday I had an english test. It had two parts: an oral and a write test (I don't know how to say it, this part is like a common test, handwritting). I'm sure I passed the oral, but in the other test, I had to write a composition (no more than 180 words) which was the 40% of the total (I wanted to write cost, but I'm not sure if it's allright, so I put was... it's this ok?) and it was a little difficult to me. <br />Even so, in general, I think I did it well. But I really don't know, because the professor still hasn't given me the result, and I'm very nervous right now!!!!!!! and everyday that pass, I got more nervous. <br />I hope she will mail it to me tomorrow, but if she doesn't,  I think I will become crazy!
<br /><br />Posted at Wed Aug 19 16:37:25 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : Friday afternoon (0)</title>
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Hello everybody!!<br />Today was my last free day. The next week I still will be in holidays, but I'm going to start studying for my final exam on monday 10th, so I really won't have time to lose in other stuffs. <br />To remember and, in a way, to joy this day, I planned going shopping and met with friends, but everything was destroyed: when I woke up, I realised that it was raining and it also was very cold and windy. I got depressed, I stayed in bed until midday and talked to my friends to cancel the plans. <br />After lunch, I decided to watch tv, so I sat in the sofa and started to do "zapping" looking for some movie or serie. I found a very dramatic film that made me more sad. I changed the channel, and suddenly I had the idea of making a cake. Then, I looked for the family recipe's book and I chose to make a "pastafrola" (a cake fill with jam). <br />I collected all the necesary ingredients and started cooking. An hour later, the cake was already made, ready to eat. Even so, I'm going to keep it for tomorrow afternoon, to eat it with all the family (but first I'm going to check it and only take it if it's tasty). <br />I wish my family would like it and aprove my cooking!<br />See you!<br />
<br /><br />Posted at Fri Jul 31 23:29:41 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : Friend's Day (1)</title>
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Hi everybody!<br />This last days I was a little busy studying and doing other things, so I really didn't have time to write this. But now, taking a break, I decide to express something, just a few words to practice. <br />Thinking about the things I did today, I want to tell you the most important one: Today we have a celebration; in my country, 20st July is the Friend's Day (Día del Amigo). In this date, most of the people (especially the students or the young people) meet togheter with their friends, have a dinner or a picnic in a park. I wanted to celebrate it with my friends, but we couldn't reach an agreement, so we decided to pospose the "party" to the next wednesday. If the weather is ok, we're going to go to the park; if it's not ok, we're going to stay all the afternoon at the house of one of my friends, watching movies, talking, eating and doing many funny things. Personally, I prefer spend time outside, so I hope the weather is good. <br /><br /><br />(Note: I had doubts, especially about the last sentence: Should I put "I hope the weather will be find" or use "going to"? <br />Thak you so much for the help!!!!!)<br /><br />
<br /><br />Posted at Tue Jul 21 05:20:32 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : Schools I used to go (0)</title>
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In my english curse, the teacher asked me to do a composition; this was the result: <br /><br />Schools I used to go<br />When I was four years old, I began my education at state school. My primary school, where I also attended to kindergarden, was called "Ejército Argentino" and it was located in my neighbourhood. In spite of being a small building, it had two floors and a schoolyard: in the ground floor it had the classrooms and bathrooms; in the first floor there was a library, a computer room and a laboratory. <br />there were seven grades, but clases were always very small, no more than twenty or twenty-five pupils. The discipline wasn't really strict (I think it wasn't to necesary because normally pupils had a goog behaviour).<br />On the other hand, the education level was good enough, there were a lot of activities to do and I always had homework. As it was a state school, we didn't wear uniforms, but we had to wear white pinafores. I really enjoyed going to school, and I love to study. My favourite subjects were Literature, History and Drawing. Maths and Natural Science were the worst for me and I didn't like them at all. I was a good student; I was good at all subjects except Physical Education: my performance was really bad. <br />In 2003 I started to attend to a secondary school, also in the neighbourhood, but so much near my house. Just like the previous one, it was a state school and I didn't need to wear uniform or wrhite pinafore (the students could wear informal clothes). The high school, named "Rodolfo Walsh", was bigger than "Ejército Argentino": it also had two floors and the building had nine classrooms, a laboratory, a computer-room, a theater, a library, a technology-room, a photography-room, a radio station and another important rooms.<br />The discipline was strict and the school had a high education system. Sometimes the texts or books were very difficult and I always had a lot of homework to do, specially team-work. In general, the students behaved well, once in a while there was some conflict, but it always had a happy and fairly end. <br />In fourth year, we received special training according to the school orientation. During those two last years, we coursed some specific and interesting subjects like Radio, Communication, Sound, Design, Publicity, Culture and Communication Means, and Journalism, which I liked most. 
<br /><br />Posted at Thu Jul 16 22:50:25 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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    <title>nori : Hola!! (0)</title>
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Hello!! - おはよう!!<br /><br />Como notarán, he decidido presentarme utilizando mi lengua natal. <br />Se bastante de Inglés (aunque quisiera usar este espacio para perfeccionar mi expresión y escritura), y apenas estoy empezando con el Japonés, así que espero recibir ayuda con ambos. <br />Desde ya, ¡¡muchas gracias a todos!!<br />¡Saludos!<br />
<br /><br />Posted at Thu Jul 16 03:33:08 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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